Ideas for ILX

i remember that bubble wrap page where you could click the bubbles and pop them. would rather ilx was less like that, though, on the whole

On August 18th, Orteil announced that the game had been receiving an average of 200,000 players per day.

does anyone really enjoy the act of clicking?

I wouldn't say enjoyed, it was a harrowing film but worth watching

just to document previous support for what n/a mentioned:

Idea: for each result that shows up in a thread search, display total # of posts + time stamp for last post

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, March 10, 2013 1:45 PM

I like that.

― how's life, Monday, June 25, 2012 11:40 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, that'd be cool.

― emil.y, Monday, June 25, 2012 12:00 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great idea.

― Biff Wellington (WmC), Monday, June 25, 2012 12:03 PM (1 year ago)

and in a previous c+p event,

dea: for each result that shows up in a thread search, display total # of posts + time stamp for last post

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Sunday, March 10, 2013 1:45 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dea: for each time you search for "weed" or "herb" or "bob marley", stet reports you to the dea.

top dea!

but really dragging pictures into the box, wait in line fellas

I don't even use that on sites that do let you do that.

i didnt even know there were sites that let you do that

me either but i can do it on iMessage

carry on :(

i would seriously pay us$50/yr for a built-in user killfile

Seems like ILXor wants to touch server-side as little as possible, so we're stuck with client-side, I'm afraid.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/errwLVgHpXY/hqdefault.jpg

Eliminate radio-button polls from ILX starting 1/1/2014, bring 'em back 1/1/2015.

no

Here's a legitimate one:

On Android, the site does not have a link to scroll down to the last post like there is on the iPhone.

My idea is legitimate, and not intended as a joke.

no

― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Thursday, October 24, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

flag poll option

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/FrameBreaking-1812.jpg

ITT: NO POLL NOVEMBER
For the first anniversary of No List November, can we do No Poll November instead?
ban polls

stop with these stupid polls

can someone make a stylesheet that makes ILX look like Outlook?

you could make bookmarks look like the inbox and threads look like the body of an email.

http://i.imgur.com/GE1uYqm.jpg

Oh, that would be fucking ace.

Can someone make a poll of the information Jensen Harris mentioned?

I guess people are done with "done" eh

actually let's give it one last spin why not

done

i just did an irl "done" in a work email

hahaha, I got a work email today that consisted of "DONE" and I didn't even think of ILX. Is the spell finally broken?

The only CSS I'm willing to work on is my own.

So, you dudes should use it and tell me what needs fixing, and I'll be your slave for free.

You don't get that type of offer everyday, gentlemen.

Gimme 50 or 100 search results per page instead of ten. I'd rather scroll than click (rejected Reynolds Girls lyric).

In long threads, enable loading of say 50 messages at a time instead of having to load them all.

^^^
Great idea. Might be nice to have a function that allows you to skip to the next/previous big time jump in a thread as well.

But plz make the 50 post thing optional. That would be maddening for me.

Still want an @ function where you can @ people's user names, and if you've been @ed a little notification appears on the menubar where if you click on it, you're taking to a page with links to the anchor tags within the threads where you were @ed

Oh you know what I mean

Tagging users. I second this.

oh boy

I'd tag pplains most days

gonna need that foot rub first.

Every day, somewhere in the vast expanses of all the ILxes, the plaintive cry of "Tracer Hand to thread!" can be heard, more in hope than expectation. The rejoicing when he appears, it is something to behold.

Gimme 50 or 100 search results per page instead of ten. I'd rather scroll than click (rejected Reynolds Girls lyric).

― grown-arsed man (onimo), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In long threads, enable loading of say 50 messages at a time instead of having to load them all.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go back to how it was in the old code where posts were coded so that their permalinks were numbered serially, not randomly

also would be cool to see chronological list of threads by board

holla February 2005 - December 2006 IRE

Maybe a separate board where mods can put completed ballot polls.

Gimme 50 or 100 search results per page instead of ten. I'd rather scroll than click (rejected Reynolds Girls lyric).

― grown-arsed man (onimo), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In long threads, enable loading of say 50 messages at a time instead of having to load them all.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go back to how it was in the old code where posts were coded so that their permalinks were numbered serially, not randomly

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:13 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know I post this like monthly, but it's super easy to do this manually. Click "permalink" on a post, and then you can just reduce the number in the URL where it says "bookmarkedmessageid="

It takes a little trial and error to get to the exact right spot, but reducing it by a thousand or so is usually good enough.

many websites rate the security of one's password as it's typed. There's a little meter that changes from red to yellow and then finally to green as more characters are added. I'd like a real time meter of otm next to the submit button.

also, precog mods that ban ilxors before the offending post(s)

this is reminding me of a project I started last year but didn't finish -- there's a toolkit for identifying people based on their grammar and syntax. was planning on making a web browser extension that'd learn who users are, and then be able to guess who sock puppets might be. anyone else, feel free to take it up.

if there is going to be an otm meter, then surely there needs to be a set of otm bar charts that track individual user's otm ratings so that we can have quarterly stack ranks

that would let us do away with FP because at the end of the quarter you could just auto-ban anyone who isn't hitting the otm target they agreed to in their yearly development plan

xp should also be able to translate a post into another poster's style or perhaps a weighted sum of several posters' styles